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In an ideal world the Chiltern mainline needs intercity type trains for its flagship Birmingham and Oxford routes. I would have seen the 222s as a good option having the capacity and superior acceleration through the Chiltern hills. The 168s are good trains however for the mainline routes they...

As I stated on the Manchester - Birmingham thread I believe that a following recast would be best suited to XC with other intercity operators stepping up in order to improve XC. I would have the following: 1tph Liverpool - Southampton (Marginal time extensions to Portsmouth) 1tph Manchester -...

I think in all honesty there does need to be some sort of recast within the north WCML and XC. I would like to see the Birmingham terminator pendolino extended to Manchester, wether this could replace one of the 3tph or work as an extension I’m not so sure. I would keep Glasgow 1tp4h with...

Looking to go to Exeter and return from Birmingham on Sat (2/10). Does anyone know the HST diagrams as ideally would prefer to a voyager.

At the moment the timetables being ran by operators along the west coast mainline is running significantly reduced from the pe covid 19 timetable. However with the railway heamorging money and the loss of peak traffic would it be viable to see some sort of recast to services such as potentially...

I would hope that there is a recast in order for the trains to be every 15 mins as atm there is a 21/9 min interval at present. I would also hope to see a realistic snow hill lines timetable for December such as 2tph to Dorridge, 2tph to Whitlocks End and at minimum 3tph to Stourbridge if it...

I think it’s very interesting with the pandemic that’s forced the trains to be double capacity but half frequency. I think that the whole network should be reviewed and as it has been mentioned I believe seperate routes would be better especially in terms of focusing for passenger demand and...

Looks like on Saturdays there will be 2tph to Birmingham with the 2nd Birmingham arriving 45 leaving 16 from Birmingham to Manchester, operating via Bescot to Crewe before operating to Man Picc via Wilmslow

Would it not make sense to transfer the moor st - leamington shuttle as an extension of the dorridge hourly to leamington? And perhaps the Stratford shuttle also, perhaps as an extension of NUCKLE into NUCKLES.

I’d like to see the three main Trent valley stations served better so something like this: Euston - Piccadilly (Watford Jn, Rugby, Coventry, Intl, New Street, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Stoke, Stockport) Euston - Scotland (Milton Keynes, Coventry, Intl, New Street, Sandwell & Dudley...

To be honest then no because due to capacity I don’t think the normal timetable will return for quite some time. It would be an increase of approximately 5 minutes but the positives outweighs this such as the freed up rolling stock and extra capacity.

I’ve thought about this for a while and have found a way for the platform space at New St. The best solution would be to route from Wolverhampton via Bescot therefore entering the Stour platforms such that the arr xx:57 and dep xx:31 paths are Used arr xx:05 and dep xx:25. The Reading service...

I know this has already been mentioned but seriously why not Manchester-Birmingham on the XC route? I understand pre-Covid it wouldn’t have even been considered but now circumstances have changed. Their is shortage of voyager stock and will be another 1/2 years minimum before further diesel...

Thanks for the reply’s obviously it was just my luck I only saw 4/5 350/2’s. However I did notice that there seems to be a lot of inter working going on at new street between every other Walsall, Wolverhampton, Rugeley, Intl and the Crewe, Liverpool, And two through Coventry to Northampton...

Have WMR swapped over their 350’s so that their is now a sub fleet of 350/2 for the Walsall and Rugeley’s? Before the timetable change different 350’s have been used but today I noticed all were 350/2 so are they now kept as a sub-fleet for WMR?